There is no use whatsoever in trying to help people who do not help themselves.
Watch the costs and the profits will take care of themselves.
There is a power under your control that is greater than poverty, greater than the lack of education, greater than all your fears and superstitions combined. It is the power to take possession of your own mind and direct it to whatever ends you may desire.
Success can be attained in any branch of labor. There’s always room at the top in every pursuit.
There are two types of people who never achieve very much in their lifetimes. One is the person who won’t do what he or she is told to do, and the other is the person who does no more than he or she is told to do.
Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
I have had a long, long life full of troubles, but there is one curious fact about them-nine-tenths of them never happened.
Don’t be content with doing only your duty. Do more than your duty. It’s the horse that finishes a neck ahead that wins the race.
I believe that the road to pre-eminent success in any line of work is to make yourself master of that line of work.
I give money for church organs in the hope the organ music will distract the congregation’s attention from the rest of the service.
Any person can achieve greatness if they understand the philosophy of success and the steps required to achieve it.
My hopes were high, and I looked every day for some change to take place. What it was to be I knew not, but that it would come I felt certain if I kept on. One day the chance came.
The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets rich.
Strong men don’t compromise,” it is said, “and principles should never be compromised.
It is not the rich man’s son that the young struggler for advancement has to fear in the race for life, nor his nephew, nor his cousin. Let him look out for the dark horse in the boy who begins by sweeping out the office.
Wealth is not to feed our egos but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.
A man’s reading program should be as carefully planned as his daily diet, for that too is food, without which he cannot grow mentally.
The man of business knows that only by years of patient, unremitting attention to affairs can he earn his reward, which is the result, not of chance, but of well-devised means for the attainment of ends.
Instead of the question “What must I do for my employer?” substitute “What can I do”